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I'm having a problem transferring a large amount of data from one external drive to another. We're trying to use a mac to connect both external hard drives, but it seems like it can only transfer 4gb at a time. We have over 500gb that needs to be transferred, but Finder will only allow us to transfer 4gb at a time. Is there a faster or easier way to tranfer this large amount of data?

I'm having a problem transferring a large amount of data from one external drive to another. We're trying to use a mac to connect both external hard drives, but it seems like it can only transfer 4gb at a time. We have over 500gb that needs to be transferred, but Finder will only allow us to transfer 4gb at a time. Is there a faster or easier way to tranfer this large amount of data?

You can not convert a FAT-32 drive to NTFS by using Disk Utility as it is unable to do it. Also any kind of reformatting will destroy the data on the drive so be careful.

The way to convert FAT-32 to NTFS correctly is to use a Windows PC and open a command prompt and use the built in conversion utility. That will convert the file system without data loss. Afterward, follow the link I gave above for the free ntfs Mounter and turn on read write NTFS capability for Snow Leopard. (if you're using Snow Leopard)

Also, other than the 4 GB file limit mentioned by Crimson, is the fact that any file transfer via USB or even firewire from one hard drive to another is going to be slow. Same applies for flash drives.